What is a zoetrope is?

A zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures.

Explain what the persistence of vision is?

The persistence of vision is when the ability of the eye to retain the impression of an image for a short time after, the image is no longer seen.

Who invented the zoetrope

The earliest elementary zoetrope was created in China around 180 AD by the inventor Ding Huan

Why was it so important?

because it was the first time ever people have ever made an animation to move.

cutout animation

•               Explain The Technique

Cutout animation is a technique for producing animations using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs. The world's earliest known animated feature films were cutout animations made in Argentina by Quirino Cristiani

•               What is good About the Technique

the good thing about cutout animation is that it is really quick to get the characters you want also, when making the animation you can be very creative with the story i.e. Settings and characters.

•               what can't the technique do?

This technique is very restricted in it's movement as, the characters being used are paper thin so they can't have side shots neither can the characters become smaller or bigger. To make the characters smaller you would have to cut them smaller which could be very frustrating and, time consuming. It is also difficult for you to create expressions for your characters and, show emotions as the faces are already prefixed. 

•               How Does it compare to other techniques you have experienced

Cut out animation is a difficult very animation to work with as, you need to have some sort of idea of what you want to make before you start the process off. You also have to be careful with every move you as they all have to line out in order for, the animation to work out.

•               Who are the masters of the technique and, what are they're films?

Terry Gilliam is an American born British animator who is also a ; film director, actor and, a screen writer. Terry Gilliam is well known for making Monty Python's Flying Circus

object animation

Explain The Technique
Object animation is a type of stop motion animation that involves the animated movements of any non-drawn objects such as toys, blocks, dolls, etc. which are not fully malleable, such as clay or wax.
What is good About the Technique
Object animation is a very creative technique which allows the person to think very imaginative as, they don't really feature characters such as; humans or, animals so the story could amount to anything. Also when the animation is complete it looks really spectacular knowing how it is made.
what can't the technique do?
The object cannot show any facial expressions so, if making a animation which is meant to mirror humans or animals it will be difficult to see and know what their feelings are.

How Does it compare to other techniques you have experienced
When i made my object animation i enjoyed working with my team as, we all had very imaginative minds and the group did not fear to put across any ideas that had about the animation. It relatively easier to think of ideas for this technique rather than, other animations due to no characters or story lines having to be involved


Key Terms Glossary

Key Terms Glossary
• Video Formats, eg .mov, avi- Video is electronically controlled to capture, record, process, store, transmit and reconstructing a squence of still images representing scenes in motion
 .mov- Is a video format used for the quicktime program
 Avi- Audio Video Interleave- AVI files contain both audio and video

• Streaming- Streaming media is multimedia that are constantly recieved by, and normally presented to, an end-user while being deliever by a streaming provider.

• File Compression- File compression is when you compress a file or group of files to reduce their overall size. This is used to save disk space when saving files, and is used to transmit larger files over the internet faster.
• Aspect Ratio: 4:3, 16:9-The ratio of the width to the height of a television, computer, mobile etc.
• Frame Rates- The frame-rate says how many images of a movie are displayed every second a movie is played. The higher frame rate a movie has the smoother objects move in the movie.

my profile script

My profile script

I don’t see the need for introductions but hey im not that famous, my names Stephen Allen im around 17 years old, but age is nothing but a number ,I wont bore you with pointless information like my favourite colour or my height so let me get straight into the intresting stuff. Im from kings cross I don’t believe that you can come from a specific country, im from earth, im not white or black or yellow im definatly not  blue or green im human full stop.

 People have asked me where do you see yourself in ten years ??? I answer, only one thing is certain ill be around twenty seven years old, when I was younger the job I aspired to have was a proffesional  hitman, well I say when I was younger but to this day iv wanted that job but I just don’t know where I would have to hand in my cv, im roman catholic so obviously I believe in GOD but I also believe that huever or whatever GOD is, he dosnt like me.

 Whats my greatest achievement?? What can I say, winning the race to the egg I was a mad fast sperm, I get inspiration from my brother and a author called Robert Greene who wrote the only book iv ever bought which was called the 40 laws of power, iv been asked what makes you different , from those around you? Im so unique you should be asking me, what makes you similar to those around you? Now that’s a hard question to answer.

 Im not bigheaded im just overly confident id rather have a high self esteem than a low one and my most memerable place in london is a bench in hyde park but you don’t wanna know why, if your wondering what gets me relaxed just give me a good film and a cold glass of E&J with ice oh and a Friday or Saturday skank but if im goin maggies, gyal can roll but marc unfortunatly cant come.

Essay on interactive video

Essay on interactive video

Intro:

Interactive video comes in many different shapes and sizes ranging from a quick two minute advertisement to a hour long virtual tour of a museum, the videos my class have been watching and analyzing over the past week or so come under four categories which are viral, user generated, virtual tours and film trailers. These videos can exists on a number of different platforms, which could be on nearly anything with a screen or Internet access e.g. a television, computer or a multimedia player. There are millions of different videos out there but each one must come under its own category for example the most common and viewed category is user generated which can mostly be found on the internet on sites such as youtube, which allows anyone with internet access to post up a short ten minute video of themselves or anything that they may want to put up, as long as it follows the rules and regulations which are mainly against people posting up videos for people aged eighteen and over.  The possibilities for interactive video are literally endless it could range from a video on youtube, which claims and tries to teach viewers a new language in ten minutes, this video would have obviously been made for educational purposes whereas on the other hand on the same exact website you could come across a video of skateboarders failing tricks and falling on their faces which would solely be for entertainment purposes.

The most controversial type of interactive video would be using it for advertisement because trying to sell a product is all fair and good and there are a lot of products that could only be advertised and marketed using videos but the most common complaint against interactive videos are about the tedious and annoying pop up advertisements which are constantly interrupting peoples internet surfing, I think that if someone wants to buy a product they will go searching for it, I don’t think its right to unexpectedly force a loud, space on your screen taking video of a new vacuum cleaner to hit the stores when that person may already have a perfectly working dyson hoover at home, there are not many draw backs to interactive video but this is defiantly one of them.

Virtual tours are also another favorite category of mine because I find them very easy, simple and user friendly while at the same time still being as interesting as the real thing, there are a lot of different situations a virtual tour would be handy in and the most common found would be for a venue or place that customers would pay to visit for example a hotel or museum because the paying customer can have a sneak peak around the venue before actually transferring there money over which can be so helpful because who wants to pay a fortune for a hotel room and when they arrive the room doesn’t even have a view fit for the price tag. This is why virtual tours can be so helpful, time saving and cost efficient. I looked at a few different user generated videos which had the same objectives, to be amusing and make the viewer laugh but they were made in very different ways, two young men from china literally became over night superstars by filming something as simple as lip-syncing a well known back street boys song on a relatively cheap web cam in a internet café, since the day the two men put this video on YouTube it has been gathering up millions of views which just goes to show how powerful and widely viewed user generated videos can be, you can become a overnight celebrity from a video you made in three minute.
On the other hand being well prepared and rehearsing your video can mean the difference between a brilliantly entertaining video and a waste of time that no one will watch, this is shown in another user generated video I analyzed which is a comedic parody of the magician David blane, the actor playing David goes up to random pedestrians and pretends to wow them with seemingly fascinating magic tricks which always fail and leaves the person shocked and gob smacked, this video is different from the Chinese backstreet boys one because you can clearly see it has been rehearsed and practiced to achieve the most comedic affect because the first two videos that the creator of the David blane parody posted up where hilarious so in turn they gathered up millions of hits, but the third and fourth didn’t gather up half as many views as the first two because you can see the creators became lazy and didn’t put as much effort into the final videos, which really makes the idea a letdown seeing as the first two where so funny.
In conclusion I feel that without interactive video the modern world would literally be completely different I can’t imagine how boring the internet would be if you wasn’t able to watch any type of video, amusing and educational, the internet would in simple words be a online library with only worded information and pictures, I think that the internet wouldn’t be used half as much especially by teenagers.